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William A. K. Titelman
William A. K. Titelman has been actively involved in government, law and public policy throughout his career. He began his career serving in several key positions in Pennsylvania state government, including Director of Motor Vehicles and Special Assistant to the Governor for Government Management. Then, after graduating from The Dickinson School of Law in 1980, Mr. Titelman led the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association for nearly a decade in its efforts to protect and expand individual rights, including shareholder rights, and drafted key provisions of Pennsylvania’s automobile insurance and consumer safety laws. Subsequently, he became a partner at Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, LLP (now Buchman Ingersoll & Rooney PC), a leading Pennsylvania law firm, where he served on the firm’s Board of Directors and chaired both its Harrisburg office and its Administrative Law and Government Affairs Practice Group. One of his major clients was the Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System (PSERS).
In 1988, Mr. Titelman led the successful enactment of a new Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law. Then, during 1989 and 1990, he led a national campaign that included organizing major public pension funds and other institutional investors, shareholder rights activists, former SEC Commissioners, leading economists, and deans of business and law schools, to oppose and successfully amend Pennsylvania Senate Bill 1310. The Wall Street Journal described this legislation as the most onerous anti-shareholder, management-protection bill ever proposed in the United States. His other legislative achievements include enactment of a seatbelt law, several environmental laws, including the nation’s first “brownfields” law, and the nation’s second electric utility deregulation law. He also served as General Counsel to both the Pennsylvania Public School Building and Higher Educational Facilities Authorities.
Mr. Titelman went on to serve as Executive Vice President, Managed Care and Public Affairs, at Rite Aid Corporation, where he suffered substantial losses as a victim of one of the nation’s largest securities frauds. He subsequently brought, and ultimately settled, an individual action for securities fraud against Rite Aid. Before joining Bernstein Liebhard LLP, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Duane Morris, LLP, a 500-lawyer national law firm.
Mr. Titelman is admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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